Summer Dance S02 E06 Mayerling

Tonight's programme features Viviana Duranteand Irek Mukhamedov in the Royal Ballet's production of Kenneth MacMillan 's full-length ballet Mayerling. Set in and around Vienna, it is a story of obsession and intrigue, based on the real-life events surrounding the deaths in 1889 of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary and his reckless, highly-strung 17-year-old lover Baroness Mary Vetsera.